Today I'm featuring the open-source program KeePass, as I've recently discovered it. I had previously been storing my passwords in a less-than-secure way, which I was not pleased with. I got frustrated with my old system, and looked to the internet for a solution.
Lo and behold, I found KeePass. It's open-source (so anyone can verify the KeePass people aren't just stealing your passwords), and very much free. The software itself is portable, so it can be used from a flash drive, and the database it generates is a single, encrypted file. It doesn't get more simple than that.
The obvious features are all here. You can store and organize usernames and passwords in categories, and it all gets encrypted securely. But wait, there's more! You can attach notes to a database entry, so that you can remember, for example, that you used your office phone number for that website's registration. There's also options for file attachments, and things I don't even know what to do with. If you change something in an entry, KeePass keeps a record of when you changed it, and what was changed. You can generate random passwords.
What doesn't it do? To be honest, I haven't gone through all the features it already has. I have trouble imagining what more I would need. I suppose that it's not the most user-friendly software I've ever used. There's no way to create deniable encryption or anything of the sort. However, I think an average user will find this program has everything they could need and more.
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